Garden In The Cold The reason we choose to grow certain crops in Fall and Winter became apparent especially early this year. As our friends in the North were getting pounded by tons of snow, the wintry blast brought our area night time temperatures in the teens a couple of months earlier than we would typically see…
Birdwatching 101 I really enjoy birding. I am not the most well educated ornithologist, but I know who’s in the neighborhood, and when somebody new comes around I enjoy finding out who it is, and trying to figure out what brought them around. For part-time bird feeders like me, the season kicks off when the…
My Favorite Thanksgiving Herbs Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday. I love everything about it: the weather finally getting cold in my area, the roasted turkey dinner with all the trimmings and the gathering of family and friends. It’s also the time of year when our garden is producing our favorite types of veggies: cold…
We have been busy bees In addition to the awesome content we produce here 3 days a week, Mark and I are both freelance writers. Here’s the latest roundup of articles we have currently published. Our previous article roundup can be found here. If you are interested in reading EVERYTHING we have ever written, you…
The Peachy Persimmon My mom grew persimmon trees. I saw “grew” because this year they decided not to bear fruit. Sadly, they never did do well in her yard. The few fruit we did mange to wrangle from the squirrels were divinely delicious. The persimmons my mother grew were not the native American variety, but…